Migration and integration are linked to depleted support networks. Although social support is a key determinant of health, newcomers’ appraisal of social support and its impact on health have not been adequately studied. This investigation focused on immigrants’ and refugees’ views of social support, its perceived influence on health and the use of health-related services. Individual in-depth i...

Marine particles in the ocean are exposed to diverse bacterial communities, and colonization and growth of attached bacteria are important processes in the degradation and transformation of the particles. In an earlier study, we showed that the initial colonization of model particles by individual bacterial strains isolated from marine aggregates was a function of attachment and detachment. In ...

Black Sea jellyfish love to travel. Far from their original home in the of Southeastern Europe, have come San Francisco Estuary. Since these first started regularly appearing fishing nets early 1980s, scientists been finding more and them Over past 40 years, our lab has tracked numbers a part Estuary called Suisun Marsh. this time, we observed increasing amounts jellies, with highest amount eve...

Home-range relocation occurs during natal and breeding dispersal, ontogenetic habitat shifts, and the maintenance of resourceor density-dependent patterns of distribution. Relocating animals are expected to change their behavior to compensate for limited familiarity with the new home range and with neighboring conspecifics; such changes may indicate some of the costs of relocation. Little is kn...

The paper develops an argument concerning the pluralistic character of the process of globalization, as contrasted with the conventional account that sees global processes creating uniformity and convergence. This alternative account is based on a series of case studies of latecomer and newcomer multinational corporations, such as Acer, Ispat International, Li & Fung and the Hong Leong Group; a...

Although online communities often regard membership growth as an important goal of their development, research has shown that large influx of new users may interrupt a community’s wellness by introducing information overload and lowering content quality [1], [2], which is also know as “Eternal September”1 from the infamous case of Usenet’s fall[3]. Founded in 2005, Reddit, as one of the most po...